The 761st Tank Battalion, known as the Black Panthers, was a black unit. The paper will highlight some of the research findings so far, as well call for transnational cooperation to capture the intertwined history. Armed Forces were segregated based on race. Dutch research now seeks to document the contributions and the individual stories of African American soldiers, including those buried in the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten. popular culture representations, which substantially shape the images of World War II in the European memory. Moreover, the African American contribution continues to be underrepresented in dominant European historiography and U.S. A more profound impact, however, had first of all the birth of liberation children of color, also called brown babies, who came to face discrimination themselves. issue of racial segregation and discrimination that now had been brought to the European continent. For many Europeans their presence meant not only a first encounter with people of color, but also with the U.S. At a rudimental level, societal racial segregation found its reflection overseas in separated units, housing facilities, and Rest & Recreation areas. When about 900,000 African Americans contributed to the liberation of Europe during World War II, racial segregation in the United States came to have an impact beyond the country’s own borders.
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